Chapter 28 Small order

It is the first of five consecutive novels.The second part was originally planned to cover the battle to defend the Great Wuhan to the Southern Anhui Incident, including the struggle to defend democracy and anti-democracy in the Great Wuhan period, the withdrawal of Wuhan, the fall of Wang Jingwei, the short-term prosperity after the industry moved to Sichuan, and the Chongqing bombing (May 3, May four).The Kuomintang government promulgated the "Regulations on Preventing Traitors and Alien Parties", and the Kuomintang people's strange theory that "the non-resistance war will end in the country's subjugation, and the resistance war will lead to the collapse of the party", etc.The third scheduled content is the outbreak of the Pacific War, the War of the Central Plains, the War of Hunan and Guangxi, the short-term prosperity of industry is over, the price is soaring, the Kuomintang's spy activities are strengthened, the censorship of books and newspapers is strengthened, many people are making money in the country, and the international The impact of the situation on the war situation in China and so on.The fourth part includes the deepening of economic panic, the Kuomintang and Japan's attempt to compromise, the upsurge of the democratic movement, the attempt to attack the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and the growing arrogance of international reactionaries.The fifth part is "Tragic Victory" (at that time, people called the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan a tragic victory) to hear that Li was assassinated.The characters in each part are roughly the same as those in the first part, with some additions.These five coherent novels attempt to give a comprehensive description of the major politics, economy, democracy and anti-democracy, spy activities and anti-secret struggles in the eight years from the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War to the "tragic victory".But just finished the first part, that is, because the Chinese Communist Party has not only liberated the three northeastern provinces, but also encircled Tianjin and Beiping, and wanted to hold a Political Consultative Conference, it arranged for our democrats in Hong Kong to go to Dalian by sea.I left Hong Kong around the end of 1948, so I had to interrupt the writing project of this book, and only the first volume was completed.Now I have sorted out the old manuscripts and added two chapters, writing about the miserable scenes in the government-run refugee shelters in Shanghai.What is written is about the Chinese society 40 years ago. The middle-aged and young people today have never experienced it. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the National Day of the People's Republic of China, the author writes this small preface with emotion.

Mao Dun in Beijing on October 4, 1979